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Scientists have revived microscopic organisms from Siberian permafrost after tens of thousands of years of frozen dormancy — including a nematode worm dated to 46,000 years ago and a bdelloid rotifer dated to 24,000 years ago — both of which resumed reproduction after thawing. The discoveries raise profound questions about the limits of biological survival, the safety of organisms emerging from thawing permafrost, and the potential to apply nature's cryopreservation mechanisms to human medicine.